Critical Reception
Alva Rogers, in A Requiem for Astounding, wrote
Full of adventure, conflict, romance, and enough casually tossed-off ideas to serve as the basis for a half-dozen other stories.
In Heinlein in Dimension, Alexei Panshin wrote
In many ways this is an important book. For one, its main theme, the problem of escaping death, is one that keeps cropping up in Heinlein stories, and for another, an amazing number of brilliant ideas are tossed out along the way.
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